International Traveller

GABON

Grass Routes Conscious travel | POSTCARDS

Gabon is being described as The Last Eden, the next big place for ecotourism and adventure. Around 88 per cent of the country on the west coast of Central Africa is blanketed in verdant, equatorial rainforest. And it's the country's commitment to preserving this untouched environment that has seen it earmarked by adventure travellers, nature lovers and environmental preservationists.

Within this green, shady habitat is the largest population of forest elephants in the world, numbered at about 95,000, and an estimated 30,000 gorillas

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